Album Rating: 4.5

Perf

phylyps trak is still best basic channel i think

hm

This slaps

Album Rating: 4.5

so hard

Album Rating: 4.0

sometimes i wish i could go back in time to prevent myself from writing this review

Album Rating: 4.5

[2]

"It's raining outside, hard"

Stopped reading there, hard

Album Rating: 4.5

RYM's Basic Channel reviews are poetry

Album Rating: 4.5

A two note bass pulse.

A crystalline guitar sample.

Synthesizer washes.

A growing sense of unease.

The guitar shimmers but it darts from side to side.

The bass remains insistent.

There aren't any drums, but there's a beat.

Why do I feel like I'm being followed?

That guitar sample is doing weird things to my brain.

The bass fades.

Somehow the beat remains.



The same elements

arranged in a different configuration

The two pieces are related yet undeniably separate.

Some voices.

This is what house music sounds like

to people who hate big sounds

and tune them out

It's simple

It's complicated

It's both



You're too focused on the big picture

to work out the components of it

You're too focused on the components

to get the big picture

You're listening to it wrong!

You're supposed to dance!

You're listening to it wrong!

You don't have headphones on

and you're not in front of a computer

wondering what to say

Stop intellectualizing dance music

that's intellectual.



Think of it another way

("Phylyps Trak" was a study

in abrasion

and out-of-sync elements converging.

"Lyot Rmx" was an exercise

in re-contextualizing big and dark

into subtle and relaxing.)

"Q1.1" was the positive image.

"Quadrant Dub" is its negative.

Space in place of traditional elements

Cavernous echos in the place of drums

The sound of a rave a mile away

Essentially a crowd pleaser

for an empty dance hall.



You're listening to his rightwrong

There is no no rightwrong way to

enjoy this

interpret this

In 36 minutes

it creates infinity.



I believe that echos never stop

that we are surrounded by them always

and they're too faint to hear

This sounds like a recorded echo

Nothing actually happened

while the boards were turned on

This is the remnants

of what was played two hours earlier

three days earlier

last year.

It's only music because you see it as such.

It's only music because everything is

(a recorded echo)

music.



When I listen to this

I actively wish it was darker outside.

Album Rating: 4.0

this is the most cringe-worthy review on this site agreed

*fades*

and chill it's fine just be proud to be the creator of such a thread

Album Rating: 4.5

"phylyps trak is still best basic channel i think"



a close second along with radiance

Album Rating: 4.5

Phylyps trak and Enforcement are tied for second for me, though I'll give an edge to the latter. Nothing in dub techno surpasses Quadrant Dub for me.

Album Rating: 4.0

should i add the Enforcement 12" on the basic channel page? seems like a dumb question, but on discogs it's credited to an artist called Cyrus. Thing is, the 12" is credited to basic channel on spotify and last.fm. just wanna check with you guys before i add it and get yelled at

Album Rating: 4.5

I added it to the database a bit ago, under Cyrus (DE), and I also recently added Quadrant. And yeah they're both just aliases

Album Rating: 4.0

ok wanted to see if thy were already in the database or not.

Cyrus is one of the many monikers BC go under (along with Phylyps), it's probably just easier to add it to the Basic Channel page considering how informal Sputnik is BUT yaknow - your choice.

p.s. if i were you i'd always trust RYM/Discogs over Spotify and Last.Fm. Spotify has a ridiculous amount of incorrect information on their albums and artists

whoops that must of taken me a while to type lol